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The Complete Sophocles

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the greatest classical dramatists: Electra, translated by Anne Carson and Michael Shaw, a gripping story of revenge, manipulation, and the often tense conflict of the human spirit; Aias, translated by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear, an account of the heroic suicide of the Trojan war hero better known as Ajax; Philoctetes, translated by Carl Phillips and Diskin Clay, a morally complex and penetrating play about the conflict between personal integrity and public duty; and The Women of Trachis, translated by C.K. Williams and Gregory W. Dickerson, an urgent tale of mutability in a universe of precipitous change. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

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ISBN: 9780195373301
Publication date: 10th December 2009
Author: Peter (Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies, Professor of Classical & Comparative Liter Burian
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 448 pages
Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Genres: Plays, playscripts
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval